By: Zwiener H.B. No. 3843
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a county to regulate impervious cover
around certain floodplains.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 240, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 240.911 to read as follows:
Sec. 240.911. REGULATION OF IMPERVIOUS COVER AROUND CERTAIN
FLOODPLAINS. The commissioners court of a county may regulate,
including by adopting zoning regulations, impervious cover located
in the unincorporated area of the county provided that area is also
within 100 feet outside the 100-year floodplain of perennial and
intermittent streams and rivers.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2021.